Got a new toy to play with
 

Just received my new graphics tablet for messing around with Photoshop.

Wacom Bamboo

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v5...com_bamboo.jpg

Its fairly basic but seams to work OK.
It's small, includes a zoom-scroll control button, 4 programmable tablet buttons, 2 programmable pen buttons and an eraser.
The pen also does not need a battery to work. :)

Since the company I worked for has packed up and moved to Poland, I now have plenty of time to learn to draw.

Tate gallery.....here I come

ah biotch, very nice m8 :)
will get a tablet some day :gj:

sweet, how much did it cost?

I was thinking of getting a tablet notebook, think it could do the same thing?

hmm kind of, but dont get one! laptop is much better :)

Yah, I am just debating for school purposes. The one voodoo has is pretty sweet.

Got it off amazon for £42.00 inc p&p.
Apart from the drivers it doesn't come with any other software.
It is supposed to have 512 pressure levels but it is hard to keep a constant light pressure. I need lots of practice.

I have found a program called Gmote which allows me to customize mouse/pen gestures, so I can easily change opacity and brush width with a flick of the pen.

That sounds way cool. Do you have illustrator as well?

I have acquired the adobe suite :naughty:
Just found a better program for mouse gestures called StrokeIt. :)